Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. One of the Department's remits relates to the Traveller and Roma communities.

I do not know what the population of the Roma community is but I know the Traveller population is in the order of 40,000. The suicide rate among male Travellers is seven times higher than among the general population. For female Travellers, some of whom are children, it is six times the suicide rate than among the general population. Exactly what relationship does the Department have with mental health services? What are the key performance indicators in that regard? When people do not survive, it is a pretty traumatic fail if that is a key performance indicator. What exactly is spent and what are the Department's outcomes?